CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for January, 31 2022

CER Daily Media Clips for January 31, 2022

Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions

Jan 31, 2022 |Washington Post | other education issues | National

Test scores are down, and violence is up. Parents are screaming at school boards, and children are crying on the couches of social workers. Anger is rising. Patience is falling.

Teachers Are Quitting, and Companies Are Hot to Hire Them

Jan 31, 2022 |Wall Street Journal | general teacher issues | National

Burned out teachers are leaving the classroom for jobs in the private sector, where talent-hungry companies are hiring them—and often boosting their pay—to work in sales, software, healthcare and training, among other fields.

‘It’s Just Stressful’: Students Feel the Weight of Pandemic Uncertainty

Jan 31, 2022 |New York Times | other education issues | National

The pandemic has changed children. Some can’t shake that feeling of instability. Others are taking on adult responsibilities. And anxiety is all around.

School choice is gateway to the American Dream

Jan 31, 2022 |FOX News | school choice | National

We need to invest directly in students. This means giving them a choice in their education.

Column: In a divided country, one-size-fits-all schools deepen our fissures

Jan 31, 2022 |Boston Globe | school choice | National

For good reason, support for school choice has soared during the pandemic.

Opinion: Texas, are you really going to let Florida beat you so badly on this key education reform?

Jan 31, 2022 |Star Telegram | school choice | National

For decades, Texas and Florida have competed over which state will lead the nation in measures such as individual liberty, economic freedom, new jobs created and the number of people moving to their state. Texas has often gotten the better of the battle, but there is one arena where the Sunshine State is leaving the Lone Star State in the dust: educational freedom.

How one South Jersey school district is coping with its teacher shortage: A month of early dismissal

Jan 31, 2022 |Philadelphia Inquirer | general teacher issues | Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey

Beginning Monday, thousands of students in the Millville school district will go home early. Faced with a severe teacher shortage, the South Jersey district plans to operate on a shortened school day.

A bill targeting union membership in Florida is getting pushback…again

Jan 31, 2022 |WSFU | teachers unions | States, South, Florida

A Republican proposal would make changes to public employee unions in Florida. Under the bill, workers would no longer be allowed to have dues deducted from their paychecks. Members would have to pay them directly to their unions.

One-year contract agreement between S.F. schools and teachers union offers up to $10,000 in bonuses

Jan 31, 2022 |San Francisco Chronicle | teachers unions | Towns, States, West, California

Working under an expired contract, San Francisco teachers and administrators reached a one-year, stopgap deal late Friday as the district weathers a fiscal crisis.

Portland’s Black and Latino students shortchanged from the earliest grades, belying pledge to

Jan 31, 2022 |The Oregonian | accountability | Towns, States, West, Oregon

Low expectations, poor teacher training, outdated curricula and a revolving door of leadership all continue to doom the vast majority of the district’s Black and brown children to a lifetime of diminished opportunities, starting when they are just 6 and 7 years old.

Charter school enrollment increases in Alabama as experts debate long-term impact

Jan 31, 2022 |AL.com | charter schools | States, South, Alabama

In Montgomery, many politicians are again backing policies that might expand publicly-funded school options and so-called parental choice options for families, after an open enrollment expansion failed last year. Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed a proclamation designating Jan. 23-29 “School Choice Week” in Alabama.

Storm Lake seeks to re-up charter school

Jan 31, 2022 |Storm Lake | charter schools | Towns, States, Midwest, Iowa

Charter School Coordinator Brittany Hicks told the school board last week she plans to submit 17 letters of support from 17 students who used the school during its 17 years of existence. She noted the program, which averages around two-dozen full-time students, also generates around 1,200 college credits per year.

Editorial: New life for two Buffalo charter schools, but is the district setting them up to fail?

Jan 31, 2022 |Buffalo News | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

The Buffalo City School District, which unsuccessfully tried to bully two charter schools out of existence last year, has come back with a two-year plan for their continuance – one that sounds reasonable but about which the schools’ supporters should be skeptical: Is the district setting those schools up to fail?

Legislature will consider a new system for authorizing charter schools in Oklahoma

Jan 31, 2022 |KGOU | charter schools | States, South, Oklahoma

Every Oklahoma charter school could soon have a new authorizer if a bill before the Oklahoma legislature this session becomes law.

Educators from NYC DOE and Charter School Get Together to Solve Literacy Gaps

Jan 31, 2022 |Brooklyn Paper | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

Before the pandemic, a partnership between the New York City Department of Education and Uncommon Schools brought educators together at DOE headquarters in Lower Manhattan to work on ways to help students become stronger readers.

Republican lawmakers plan legislation to break up MPS, expand vouchers to all students in a proposal

Jan 31, 2022 |Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | school choice | States, Midwest, Wisconsin

Republican lawmakers plan to propose a sweeping package of legislation to overhaul K-12 education in Wisconsin that would break up the state's largest school district within two years and expand private-school vouchers to every student, regardless of family income.

Editorial: Charters must answer hard questions

Jan 31, 2022 |Free Lance Star | charter schools | States, South, Virginia

Gov. GLENN Youngkin is dangling lots of shiny words before people eager to flex their new-found parental rights and throw open Virginia’s doors to charter schools.

SUNY-approved charter schools in NYC outperform public schools: study

Jan 31, 2022 |New York Post | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

The analysis — which involved third- through eighth-graders —was conducted by the State University of New York’s Charter Schools Institute, one of two entities that approve charters in the state.

Low-income students get scholarships to private k-12 schools through Empower Illinois

Jan 31, 2022 |KTVI-TV | school choice | States, Midwest, Illinois

Low-income students may qualify for a generous scholarship to a private school k-12 and higher-income people who donate to the scholarship receive a large tax credit.

Judge: Parents who withdrew kid from private school over remote learning to get 50% refund

Jan 31, 2022 |Courier-Journal | private schools | Towns, States, South, Kentucky

A family will only receive half of the reimbursement it demanded from a Louisville private school after withdrawing their daughter because it wasn't holding in-person classes, a judge has ruled.

Editorial: New York keeps spending more on schools and getting less results

Jan 31, 2022 |New York Post | accountability | Towns, States, Northeast, New York

If school achievement depended only on funding, New York’s kids would be performing twice as well as other American children. Alas, they’re not — and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget will only boost the spending gap more, with no path toward better results.

Phoenix teacher organizing protest over state’s spending cap for schools

Jan 31, 2022 |Arizona Family | school funding | States, West, Arizona

If state lawmakers don't override the spending cap on March 1, schools could lose more than $1 billion in funding. Each public school district would lose hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, and that could force schools to cut teachers and programming for students.

In a first, three Memphis schools to exit ASD, join state’s charter commission

Jan 31, 2022 |Commercial Appeal | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Tennessee

Three Memphis schools will exit the state-run Achievement School District and join the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, a first for schools in the state's turnaround efforts.

An LGBT-Friendly Charter School in the Heart of Alabama Shows the Power and Flexibility of School Ch

Jan 31, 2022 |Capital Hill Times | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Alabama

Homewood in Alabama is a suburb of Birmingham that offers excellent examples of charter schools reaching students struggling to succeed in traditional public schools.

Miami’s school-choice partnership will strengthen Florida’s tech economy | Opinion

Jan 31, 2022 |Miami Herald | school choice | Towns, States, South, Florida

Florida’s future rests on the rights of parents to choose what schools best fit the needs of their children. We believe that parents, not administrators, should hold the power to decide and to determine where, when, and at what institution their child or children will attend for their education.

More private schools registered in state private school choice programs

Jan 31, 2022 |Janesville Gazette | school choice | States, Midwest, Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction reported an increase in private schools participating in the state’s three private school choice programs, according to a news release.

Editorial: Distance learning will increase economic inequality

Jan 31, 2022 |Las Vegas Review-Journal | remote learning | States, West, Nevada

Distance learning turned out to be an oxymoron. There’s abundant evidence that students forced to endure remote learning didn’t learn as much as they would have in the classroom. Grades and test scores from the Clark County School District confirm that as well.

Pandemic fuels state voucher programs

Jan 31, 2022 |Concord Monitor | school choice | States, Northeast, New Hampshire

In the summer of 2020, just a couple of months after most students struggled through remote schooling caused by the pandemic, 800 Granite State students were on a waiting list seeking a scholarship to pursue other education options.

Marsh bringing ‘mother of all school choice bills’

Jan 31, 2022 |Alabama Daily News | school choice | States, South, Alabama

State Sen. Del Marsh said he’s filing “the mother of all school choice bills” and expects it to get approval in its first committee on Wednesday.

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